He nacido? or He nato?
I wanted to say :
He nacido en Qatar en el año ...................
But i doubled check the verb Nacer in the CONJUGATION and i found this :
participio pasado: nato
So i used He nato instead of He nacido and i was corrected back to He nacido.
Is the conjugation for the verb Nacer wrong in this site? or im missing something'
15 Answers
steve said:
The problem is that that partciple is only an adjective, as in "a corrected text." If your using the participle as a verb, it's corregido. This site's conjugator appears to only have room one participle. if you check the WR conjugator under participle you will find nacido, nato and nado
You should be careful when using these sites. I strongly suggest that you use this conjugator, which is the one all schools, writers, translators and universities follow (orthographic rules were created by them):
"Nado" is obsolete (no longer in use for centuries), "nato" can only be used as an adjective, and not to form perfect tenses, so you can use it to mean "with a natural aptitude for something, born to do that":
Es un músico nato.
The DRAE site only has "nacido" as a past participle under its conjugation.
'nato' is the past participle for ITALIAN verb 'nascere' - equivalent of spanish 'nacer'. If anyone would say to me: He nato en Qatar, maybe I would understand, but it would seem really strange, and would take me a few moments to realize what did you mean. Remeber, not every Spanish speaks italian, and some of them may not understand it. So you better don't use this conjugator. There are lots of other good conjugators all over the net. Bye ;D
I don't know about past participles listed on different sites, but he nacido and he nato sound very odd to me. Shouldn't it just be Nací en Qatar = I was born is Qatar?
He nato is wrong, but:
He nacido dos veces: la primera cuando mi madre me dio la luz y la segunda cuando acepté Jesus.
I have been born twice: the first time when my mother gave birth and the second when I accepted Jesus.
¿He nato? ¡Oh, no! Todas las formas compuestas son incorrectas.
I don't know about past participles listed on different sites, but he nacido and he nato sound very odd to me. Shouldn't it just be Nací en Qatar = I was born is Qatar?
I had no idea that "nado" even existed. hmm, nado , nadas, nada...jeje
Well, I do think wordreference has a great advantage as to finding a verb, the infinitive, when having only the conjugated verb at hand. No other dictionary as far as I know finds the verb for you.
However, RAE is our "bible".
it should be
he nacido - I was born, the other is wrong. Italian I think
There are lots of words that have multiple past participles listed at WR, one standard and one irregular: the irregular one is only used as an adjective, although the only article I have read confirming this is at wikipedia. For this particular case, looking up the irregular forms at WR confirms that nato is an adjective and nado refers to swimming.
Mine does, although I'll happily concede that at the moment, the vocabulary coverage (at least in terms of number of words) is not as comprehensive as WordReference.
Heidita said:
I had no idea that "nado" even existed. hmm, nado , nadas, nada...jeje Well, I do think wordreference has a great advantage as to finding a verb, the infinitive, when having only the conjugated verb at hand. No other dictionary as far as I know finds the verb for you.
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¿He nato? ¡Oh, no! Todas las formas compuestas son incorrectas.
Aviso: Tiene triple p. p.: nacido,nado y nato.
this is by the way from WR!!
But the conjugation given on "our" conjugator is a disaster. He nato....
Hi Heidita,
This is what I was remembering, but I couldn't remember what had actually been said. I wondered what the word nado was about. Like I was telling Punisher though, I hadn't sent the letter at the time that the error was found, but I nearly made the same mistake as him(with a different verb) after looking up a past participle here. And since it was an irregular verb, I didn't trust my ear, which was telling me that that didn't sound like a past participle. I was ,of course, wanting to hear an ado/ido on the end of the word. I've bookmarked the RAE URL Lazarus provided
Heidita said:
steve said:
Word Reference (wordreference.com) is another language site with a forum, dictionaries and conjugator. It covers multiple languages. Hopefully I don't get a tongue-lashing for plugging another site, because this isn't a plug. I prefer this site, but when it falls short I check over there.
HI Steve, it is perfectly ok to mention other good language sites. Wordreference is mentioned here as a reference all the time.
However, we do not think [url=http://my.spanishdict.com/forum/topic/show'id=1710195%3ATopic%3A1048326]threads like this[/url] are appropiate.
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steve said:
Word Reference (wordreference.com) is another language site with a forum, dictionaries and conjugator. It covers multiple languages. Hopefully I don't get a tongue-lashing for plugging another site, because this isn't a plug. I prefer this site, but when it falls short I check over there.
HI Steve, it is perfectly ok to mention other good language sites. Wordreference is mentioned here as a reference all the time.
However, we do not think [url=http://my.spanishdict.com/forum/topic/show'id=1710195%3ATopic%3A1048326]threads like this[/url] are appropiate.
it's in my last post pdqra, minus the http://www.
It's http://www.wordreference.com
La Podenquera said:
Can you please give me the url?
steve said:
Word Reference (wordreference.com) is another language site with a forum, dictionaries and conjugator. It covers multiple languages. Hopefully I don't get a tongue-lashing for plugging another site, because this isn't a plug. I prefer this site, but when it falls short I check over there. For one thing, if you have a conjugated verb form but aren't able to guess or otherwise determine the infinitve it comes from, their dictionary will tell you. It's mainly a way to keep from going to the shelf and cracking open the print dictionary for me
La Podenquera said:
What is the WR conjugator?
steve said:
I ran into the same problem with a participle gotten from the site conjugator. In my case the verb was corregir. I looked up the past prticiple and got correcto. The problem is that that partciple is only an adjective, as in "a corrected text." If your using the participle as a verb, it's corregido. This site's conjugator appears to only have room one participle. if you check the WR conjugator under participle you will find nacido, nato and nado
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Word Reference (wordreference.com) is another language site with a forum, dictionaries and conjugator. It covers multiple languages. Hopefully I don't get a tongue-lashing for plugging another site, because this isn't a plug. I prefer this site, but when it falls short I check over there. For one thing, if you have a conjugated verb form but aren't able to guess or otherwise determine the infinitve it comes from, their dictionary will tell you. It's mainly a way to keep from going to the shelf and cracking open the print dictionary for me
La Podenquera said:
What is the WR conjugator?
steve said:
I ran into the same problem with a participle gotten from the site conjugator. In my case the verb was corregir. I looked up the past prticiple and got correcto. The problem is that that partciple is only an adjective, as in "a corrected text." If your using the participle as a verb, it's corregido. This site's conjugator appears to only have room one participle. if you check the WR conjugator under participle you will find nacido, nato and nado
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I ran into the same problem with a participle gotten from the site conjugator. In my case the verb was corregir. I looked up the past prticiple and got correcto. The problem is that that partciple is only an adjective, as in "a corrected text." If your using the participle as a verb, it's corregido. This site's conjugator appears to only have room one participle. if you check the WR conjugator under participle you will find nacido, nato and nado
